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Cc: Ulf Magnusson <ulfma629@student.liu.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD
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* Ted Mittelstaedt [2005-05-29 00:05 -0700]
>  Wrong.  Each IDE cable can have 2 devices a master and a slave.  So if 
>  you have 2 IDE controllers you can have master, slave, master, slave 
>  for a total of 4 drives.
>  
>  It is not master on ide cable 1, slave on ide cable 2.


There's nothing wrong with having a primary master and a secondary slave, 
just as much as there is nothing wrong with the setup you proposes.